diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.use/releng/clang b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.use/releng/clang
deleted file mode 100644
index 04410a97..00000000
--- a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.use/releng/clang
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-
-# clang from stage1 does not have openmp capability, so turn this off
-# here to avoid failures in stage3
-app-crypt/libb2 -openmp
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.use/releng/openmp b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.use/releng/openmp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5541b902
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.use/releng/openmp
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+# compilers from stage1 do not have openmp capability, so turn this off
+# here to avoid failures in stage3
+app-crypt/libb2 -openmp
+app-portage/portage-utils -openmp
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages/package.use/releng/clang b/releases/portage/stages/package.use/releng/clang
deleted file mode 100644
index 04410a97..00000000
--- a/releases/portage/stages/package.use/releng/clang
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-
-# clang from stage1 does not have openmp capability, so turn this off
-# here to avoid failures in stage3
-app-crypt/libb2 -openmp
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages/package.use/releng/openmp b/releases/portage/stages/package.use/releng/openmp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5541b902
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages/package.use/releng/openmp
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+# compilers from stage1 do not have openmp capability, so turn this off
+# here to avoid failures in stage3
+app-crypt/libb2 -openmp
+app-portage/portage-utils -openmp